Europe

Puerto Rico welcomes 200-year-old historic remains
The 200-year-old remains of a Puerto Rican hero have arrived on the island after an exhaustive quest to identify his body and bring it home.
Pope Francis makes first Curia appointment
Pope Francis on Saturday named a Spanish Franciscan to be the No. 2 at the Vatican's office for religious orders, his first appointment to the Vatican ...
British woman killed in Kashmir; Dutchman arrested
A British woman was found dead in a pool of blood in a houseboat in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Saturday and a Dutchman has been arrested in ...
4 Italian journalists held in Syria
The Italian Foreign Ministry says that four Italian journalists have been detained in Syria. The Foreign Ministry on Saturday said that they are in ...
Suspects in Africa drug trade held in NY for trial
A former navy chief of the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau who is suspected of being a kingpin in the international cocaine trade was ...
Ex-Credit Suisse exec pleads not guilty in NYC
A former Credit Suisse executive has pleaded not guilty to fraud charges in New York City after his extradition from the United Kingdom. U.S.
Italy pardons US Air Force officer in CIA case
Italy's president on Friday pardoned a U.S. Air Force colonel convicted in absentia by Italian courts in the CIA-conducted abduction of an Egyptian ...
Pope seeks decisive action against sex abuse
Pope Francis directed the Vatican on Friday to act decisively on clergy sex abuse cases and punish pedophile priests, saying the Catholic Church's ...
French minister in Mali, presses for July poll
France's foreign minister has urged Mali to stick to a July date for a proposed presidential election. During a visit to the country's capital on ...
German day care director freed from intruder
A knife-wielding man entered a German day care facility for children and took its director hostage before police freed the captive hours later.
German tourists robbed in Brazil
Brazilian police say gunmen have attacked a tourist van and robbed nine German tourists visiting Rio de Janeiro. Police say in a brief statement the ...
Russia's opposition leader aspires to unseat Putin
A prominent Russian opposition leader who made his name exposing official corruption says he hopes to win the next presidential election so he has the ...
Ewes-ful: Paris hires sheep to mow city lawns
Will tourists soon see flocks of baaing sheep at the Eiffel Tower and bleating ewes by Notre Dame cathedral? That could be the case, since Paris City ...
Indian agency files murder case against 2 Italians
An Indian investigative agency has filed a murder case against two Italian marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen last year, news reports ...
Judge blocks extradition of terror suspect to US
A Dutch judge has blocked the extradition of a terror suspect to the United States until American authorities guarantee he will receive the same ...
UN says C. African Republic refugees rise to 37K
The U.N. refugee agency says more than 37,000 refugees have left Central African Republic since December. Agency spokesman Adrian Edwards says nearly ...
Death toll from Swiss shooting rises to 5
A man wounded in a February shooting at a wood-processing company in central Switzerland has died — bringing the death toll to five including the ...
Man admits to murder of Irish woman in Australia
A man has pleaded guilty to the rape and murder of an Irish immigrant he attacked as she walked home from a bar in Australia's second-largest city.
Police: Italian priest stole $5.1M from hospital
Italian police on Thursday arrested a priest accused of pocketing 4 million euros ($5.1 million) from a Catholic hospital he ran and helping run up ...
Woman in Berlusconi sex trial denounces tactics
The Moroccan woman at the center of ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi's sex-for-hire trial held an unusual protest Thursday in front of Milan's courthouse, ...
Court convicts Air France of discrimination
A French court has convicted Air France of discrimination for removing a Palestinian activist from a plane as she traveled to Israel to attend a rally
Riches of Dutch History Return to Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum, the National Museum of the Netherlands, is finally set to reopen to the public, with Rembrandt van Rijn's masterpiece "The Night ...
Isotope seized in Georgia too small for dirty bomb
Three men are under arrest in Georgia on charges of illegally possessing a radioactive isotope that can be used in a dirty bomb, but authorities say ...
Tate pulls convicted artist's work from collection
Britain's Tate art collection says it has removed more than 30 prints by the artist Graham Ovenden from its online collection following his conviction ...
UK judge jails parents for deaths of 6 children
A judge sentenced the father of six British children who died in a house fire to life, with a minimum of 15 years in prison, describing him Thursday ...